But electricity _is_ really smoke. They burn coal at the generating
station and it travels through the wires to your house, where it makes ....

Did you notice that coal is BLACK? And most smoke is BLACK, too.

Insofar as water-generated electricity is concerned, it comes from rain
which has FALLEN (it's heavy) out of BLACK clouds and flowed downward
(heavy, again) to a sort of centrifuge which spins the HEAVY electricity
out of the water and forces it into the wires....
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--Myron A. Calhoun.
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